GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |